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Desperate Condition of the Queen. Her Coronation in Hungary. Enthusiasm of the Barons. Speech of Maria Theresa. Peace with Frederic of Prussia. His Duplicity. Military Movement of the Duke of Lorraine. Battle of Chazleau. Second Treaty with Frederic. Despondency of the Duke of Bavaria. March of Mallebois. Extraordinary Retreat of Belleisle. Recovery of Prague by the Queen.
On the 16th of May, 1742, the Austrian army, under the Duke of Lorraine, and the Prussian army under Frederic, encountered each other, in about equal numbers, at Chazleau. Equal in numbers, equal in skill, equal in bravery, they fought with equal success. After several hours of awful carnage, fourteen thousand corpses strewed the ground. Seven thousand were Austrians, seven thousand Prussians.
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